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Adult fenMle.—hQngth (skins), 175.3-190.5 (183.1); wing, 100.8- 

 107.4: (103.9); tail, 68.1-76.7 (72.1); culmen, from base, 18.6-19.8 

 (18.8); depth of bill at base, 9.7-10.2 (9.9); tarsus, 25.7-27.9 (26.7); 

 middle toe, 18.8-20.1 (19.3).^ 



Northern and central coast district of California (Mendocino, Sonoma, 

 Marin, San Francisco, San Joaquin, Santa Clara and San Benito coun- 

 ties) and northward to coast of Washington (Cape Disappointment); 

 migrating or straggling eastward to Shasta, Yuba, and Plumas counties, 

 southward to Los Angeles and Riverside counties. 



Agelaius gubernator (not Psarocolius guhernator Wagler) Bonaparte, Geog. and 

 Comp. List, 1838, 30.— AuDnBON, Synopsis, 1839, 141; Birds Am., oct. ed., 

 iv, 1842, 29, pi. 215.— Gambel, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1847, 204, part 

 (California).— WooDHOusE, Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and Col. R., 1853, 

 80 (California).- Newberry, Kep. Pacific R. R. Surv., vi, 1857, 86 (San 

 Francisco and Sacramento Valley, California). — Baird, Rep. Pacific E. R. 

 Surv., ix, 1858, 530 (Columbia R. ; Petaluma, San Francisco, Santa Clara, 

 Sacramento Valley, and Cocomongo Ranch, California) ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 

 1859, no. 402.— Heermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. vi, 1859, 53 

 (California; desc. nest and eggs). — Kennekly, Rep. Pacific E. R. Surv., x, 

 1859, pt. iv, 1859, 31, part (Cocomongo Ranch, a. California). — Cassin, 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1862, 313 (San Francisco, California, Nov.).— 

 Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 263. — Bmrd, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, pi. 33, figs. 4, 8. — American Ornithologist's Union, Check 

 List, 1886, no. 499.— Anthony, Auk, iii, 1886, 167 (Beaverton and Wapita 

 Lake, Washington Co., w. Oregon). — (?)Emerson, Bull. no. 7, Cal. Ac. Sci., 

 1887, 428 (Poway, San Diego Co., California).— (??) Bond, Auk, vi, 1889, 

 341 (Cheyenne, Wyoming, 1 spec, Apr. 14). — Lawrence, (R. H.), Auk, 

 ix, 1892, 45 (Grays Harbor, AVashington ) . — Fisher, North Am. Fauna, no. 7, 

 1893, 75 (s. end Owens Lake, s. California, June 11; Ojai Valley, s. California, 

 Dec; etc. )— Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 455, pi. 6, figs. 16, 

 17 (eggs). — Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 257. 



Algelaiusi gubernator Ridgway, Man, N. Am. Birds, 1887, 370. 



Agelxus guherndior Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 127 (San Jos6 Valley, 

 California); Ibis, 1884, 10, part (monogr. ); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 

 341, part (San Francisco, California). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, i, 1887, 454, part. 



[Agelieus phceniceus.} Var. gubernator CouBS, Key, N. Am. Birds, 1872, 156. 



Agelsem pliceniceuK . . var. gubernator CoueSj Check List, 1873, no. 212a.— 

 Hensiiaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1876, 249 (Los Angeles, Cali- 

 fornia, June; Fort Tejon, Cal.,- Aug.). 



\_Agelxux phainiceus] c. gubernator CouES, Birds, N.W., 1874, 136, part (synonymy). 



Agelaius phomiceus, var. 'gubernator Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 163, part. 



Agelaius pJwmiceus gubernator'RiBGw ay, Bull. Essex Inst., vi, Oct., 1874, 171 (Sacra- 

 mento, California). 



Agelxiis phimieeus, fi. gubernator [Ridgway] Belding, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus., ii 

 March 21, 1879, 420 (Stockton, California, resident; Marysville, California, 

 Feb.). 



Agelxusplumiceus gubernator Ridgway, Proc.U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880,183; 

 Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 261a.— CouES, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 317. 



' Ten specimens. 



